About Us

We Focus on Getting You The Right Talent – At any level

Raynak Executive Search is a leading  search firm focused on Life Sciences , Consumer Products, Software, Emerging Technologies, and Healthcare with a reputation for integrity, tenacity, and results. We are uncompromising in finding the best people─the right people─for every position we are engaged to fill.

For over 15 years, corporations have engaged Laura Raynak for C-Level, Vice President level, and entire functional teams.  Whether it is sales, data / analytics, or professional services, you can count on Laura to locate, engage and entice top talent to join your company.

She conducts executive team assessments and staffing process assessment to help clients understand the strength of their leadership teams and staffing functions – which relates directly to the quality of the people hired..  These assessments often flush out strengths that the company can concentrate upon to achieve their goals.

Laura has extensive executive recruitment experience in the following areas: medical products and services (medical devices, diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, biopharmaceuticals, healthcare), biotech, life sciences tools, financial services, consumer products, agriculture, and family-run businesses.

Clients include public and private companies, such as Johnson and Johnson Development Corporation, PolyRemedy, ProMega, and Vitapath Genetics.

Laura Raynak, Executive Talent Scout 

Laura Raynak exemplifies the best characteristics of the executives she looks for: a head for science and a heart for people, the vision to recognize the big picture, and the focus to track the details. Plus, that very critical talent─good instinct. Laura is one of those rare people who just know when something will work out, and when it won’t.

Laura has served as an executive talent scout for companies in the bay area and southern California for over 15 years.  Business leaders who have worked with Laura describe her as diligent, determined, thoughtful, and insightful. Clients find her honesty and transparent style of conducting business extremely refreshing. Her professionalism sets the tone for her associates at Raynak Executive Search.

Her broad industry relationships and skill in identifying the best fit for leadership talent is a hallmark of Laura and Raynak Executive Search. She incorporates a personal board of insider connections in her practice, and is active with centers of influence such as leading law firms. This strategy gives her invaluable industry knowledge before it becomes public for the advantage of her clients.

Laura earned her BA degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and holds a Certificate in Human Resources Management from UC Extension. Laura is a board member of the NCHRA, an invited expert speaker, and is involved in several community organizations in the executive search and human resource industry.